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Site name Mill Farm, Cardington
Site number 1462
Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4025 4028 4030 4035 4042 4046 4051 4053 4065 4075 4084 4092 4098 4104 4111 4125 4128 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc A ring ditch enclosing an off-centre inhumation burial of two persons, one crouched, the other too disturbed by agricultural activity to determine the position. No grave goods were found in association, but a significant number of bird bones were found in the larynx area of the main burial, possibly a deposit as part of the rite. The body position suggested to the excavator that the burial was Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. (The nearby ring ditch had no burial deposit, but flint work of that period was found there). Another pit in the enclosure may have held a small cremation deposit.
Remains/Period Y4
County Bedfordshire
Region SE
National grid square TL
X coordinate 81
Y coordinate 489
Bibliographic source Clark 1990c


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